On 09/23/11 12:33 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Paras pradhan wrote: >> > Here is o/p John >> > >> > Number Start End Size File system Name >> > Flags >> > 1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved >> > partition msftres >> > 2 135MB 134GB 134GB ntfs Basic data partition >> > 3 134GB 1100GB 965GB Basic data partition > <snip> > Looks to me as though someone started to install Windows on top of your > box. This isn't partition data magically changed - best guess is someone > started, then stopped, realizing it was the wrong box they were working > on. ay-yup, thats EXACTLY what it looks like. a NEWER version of Windows at that. Weird how they got disk sde and not sda but I've seen Windows having a completely different idea of which device was '0' than Linux before... -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast